WANTED TO SEE PETER.
..There was"a..sKarprnosed, red-headed woman there who wanted to see if " a man by^ the name of Peter had been locked up." Bijah went up and down the corridor crying:— , Peter ! Peter! pumpkin-eater, Had a wife and he did beat 'er. " It's an Infernal lie !" growled a voice inlcell No. 2, and Bijah returned, and replied that ; Peter was there, and apparently in the best of health. ■'" Then I want to see him." :: •*' For none of your business !" *" But you can't." ."But I will!" \ There v?as an appalling silence, during which bpth, sat down. Then. there was a breeze' during which both stood up. '"I tell ye, I must see Peter 1" ishe exclaimed,.as she fanned herself at the rate 0i'154 reyplutionsper minute. , "IState your,reasons in an open-hearted manner," replied the old man. "X want to tell him not to own up." "To what?" "To throwing me down stairs." -Bijah took off his coat, tightened his suspenders, and began to deliver his opinion on the female sex, but before he was half way through, His Honor came in and prepared to open the court. Peter was the first man out. His face was badly scratched, his hair sticking in every direction, and his eyes looked as anxious as porcelain casters as he came before the bar. "Please, sir, he was only,in fun when he threw me down stairs," said the sharpnosed woman, as she rose up. ." Qnly .in fun—only in fun," growled P&ter,.,as he'gave her a loving wink. 17 ",T:hen ,this man is your husband?" queried His Hpnour. !"My own darling husband, and there's not a better man in America," she answered. . . , . ; : y, y:, "You whoop, yell, scream, smash furniture, and pound each other ? " " Yes, sir, but it's all in fun, for we love each other, don't we, Peter ? " "fifes, we love," sighed the husband. " -Maybe you dp, but that's a curious way of showing it. lam convinced that about thirty days in the cooler would do Peterworlds of good." •;•■-■■ '''Then let me go with him, sir. It would übreak my heart to know that he, was boosted up and I was left to keep house with no one but the cat, and him away half the the time." The court chewed up two inches of a new pen-holder and arrived at the conclusion that the people of the State of Michigan- could stand, it if Peter's wife could, and he was allowed to depart. Bijah "said he would wager a dozen California plums against a railroad fan that they; would have a fight before they had gone two blocks. He was right. They had not travelled 200 feet from the station house door before she had struck him in the back with both fists at once, and he laid his hand on her mouth with a force that sent an echo up to the third story windows.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3784, 12 February 1881, Page 4
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481WANTED TO SEE PETER. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3784, 12 February 1881, Page 4
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